Improving survey questions : [electronic resource] design and evaluation / Floyd J. Fowler, Jr.
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TextSeries: Applied social research methods series ; v. 38Publication details: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995.Description: viii, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0803945825 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803945821 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803945833 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780803945838 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Social surveys -- Methodology
- Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
- Data Collection -- methods
- Research Design
- Sociometric Techniques
- Vragenlijsten
- Survey-onderzoek
- Enquêtes sociales
- Sciences sociales -- Méthodologie
- Sciences sociales -- Recherche
- Sciences sociales -- Méthodologie
- Demoskopie
- Methode
- 300/.723 21
- HN29 .F67 1995
- 70.03
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-188) and index.
Questions as measures: an overview -- Designing questions to gather factual data -- Questions to measure subjective states -- Some general rules for designing good survey instruments -- Presurvey evaluation of questions -- Assessing the validity of survey questions -- Questions design and evaluation issues in perspective -- Appendix A: Commonly used measurement dimensions -- Appendix B: Measures of common covariates -- Appendix C: About open-ended questions -- Appendix D: Achieving standardized interviews.
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